Plan of analytical attack

1. DOES INVERT COMMUNITY VARY WITH HABITAT?

  • NMDS of traps, vectors for veg and land use
  • Multivariate GLMM:

taxa abundances ~ land use + veg + RANDOM:site

2. DOES LIZARD DIET VARY WITH HABITAT?

  • NMDS of lizards, vectors for veg and land use
  • Multivariate GLMM:

taxa abundances ~ land use + veg + RANDOM:site

Combine pitfall/sticky data?
Use rel abundance or PA?
Is it fine to use a trap/lizard as a sample, with site as a RE?
Remove rare taxa (limit to top 8 prey items)?

3. DOES INVERT COMMUNITY PREDICT LIZARD DIET?

  • Multivariate GLMM:

diet abundances ~ prey abundances + RANDOM:site

Is this even a thing you can do???

4. WHAT ABOUT PLANTS AND ANTS?

  • Something simple about herbivory/myrmecophagy because it’s especially weird/interesting

Other ideas

Qs 4 Colin

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